Game board



H, RUBIN GAME BOARD Oct. 16, 1934.

Filed April 18, 1935 {5% ead ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 15, 1934 Mild-i8 rarest; orgies GAME BOARD Herbert Rubin, New York, N. Y.

Application April 18, 193$,Serial No. 666,640

1 Claim.

This invention relates to game boards and has for one of its objects the provision of a game board especially adapted for the playing of dice.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a board of the nature referred to provided with a pair of playing surfaces having pockets or depressions, each of which is provided with dice indicia, the said pockets being adapted to receive a ball projected from a housing at it} the lower part of the board.

A further object of the invention is to provide a pair of ejectors which may be operated singly or together to project the balls on to the playing surfaces, so that both the elementsof chance and skill may be utilized in playing the game.

Another object is to produce a device of the character described in which the maximum simplicity of construction and operation is secured.

Other objects and advantages will appear as the nature of the improvements is better understood, the invention consisting substantially in the novel arrangement and co-relation of parts herein fully described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein similar reference characters are used to describe corresponding parts throughout the several views, and then finally pointed out and specifically defined and indicated in the appended claim.

The disclosure made the basis of exemplifying the present inventive concept suggests a practical embodiment thereof, but the invention is not to be restricted to the exact details of this disclosure, and the latter, therefore, is to be understood from an illustrative, rather than a restrictive standpoint.

The inventive idea involved is capable of receiving a variety of mechanical expressions, one of which, for the purpose of illustration, is shown in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a top plan View of my improved game board.

Figure 2 is a sectional view thereof taken on line 2--2 Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a fragmental end view of the board showing the ejector and Figure 4 is a sectional view of the ejector, taken on line 4-4 Figure 1.

Referring now to the drawing in detail 5 indicates the base of the game board, around the top and sides of which there are secured the walls 6, '7 and 8 and at the bottom thereof there is secured the bottom end wall 9.

The board is divided into two playing fields or areas 10 and 11 by means of a centrally located dividing wall 12 and by a pair of arcuate top (Cl. Z73129) walls 13 and i l. Channels or alleys l5 and 16 are provided on each side of the dividing wall 12 by means of strips 17 substantially shorter than the said wall 12 and provided at their forward ends with flat springs or spring arms 18 which are so formed as to normally constrict the channels 17.

Each playing field is provided with a plurality of depressions or pockets 19 at or near which depressions there is painted or otherwise provided dice indicating means 20 of denominations varying from one to six and are preferably although not necessarily so arranged that the sum total of the pips of any two dice on a horizontal line equals seven.

An ejector 22 is provided for each of the playing fields, the said ejectors each comprising a pin or rod 23 having a head 24 at one end and a handle or knob 24. at the opposite end. The rods 23 are slidingly mounted in bushings 25 secured in the end wall 9. Springs 26 maintain the ejectors under tension at all times. A plate 2'? having a fingerpiece or handle 28 is in contact with the bot tom Wall 9 and spans and connects the rods 23 at their outer ends, the said rods passing loosely through openings in the said plate 27 which is in abutment with the shoulder forming ends 24 of the handles 24*. The ejectors are covered by a short plate 29 to form a housing so from which the balls 31 may be projected.

To play the game the board is tilted so that the upper part 32 thereof is higher than the lower end, the balls 31 are placed in the channels 15 and 16 and the player has the option of expelling both balls simultaneously by pulling upon the fingerpiece 28 of the plate 27, or expelling one ball at a time by pulling back each handle 24 one at a time and then releasing same. In the first instance, the plate 27 due to its abutment with the handles 24* will draw back both plungers or rods 23, and upon the release of the said handle, both of the balls 31 will be shot forward past the springs 18 and roll along the surface of the playing fields 10 and 11 and they may both enter and come to rest in any of the various pockets 19, the sum total of the pips of the dice indicia at the said pockets being the players point which he has to make in subsequent plays. However, should only one ball. enter a pocket then the other ball is shot forward until it finally comes to rest in a pocket. Pins 33 are provided for deflecting the balls from place to place. In the above method of playing, the element of chance plays a prominent part. However, by using each of the ejectors separately, the skill with which the play all) er ejects the balls 31 plays an important part in the game.

It will be understood that any game that can be played with regular dice can be played upon my board with the balls 31, due to the fact that each depression or pocket 19 is provided with the dice indicia 20, and for this reason no particular dice game need be minutely described here, nor need any specific playing rules be mentioned.

From the foregoing, it will be seen that I have provided a game board upon which any dice game may be played by the use of balls, dice labelled depressions and ball ejectors.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A game board ejector comprising a support, a pair of spaced apart slidingly mounted plungers in the said support, spring tens-ioning means in operative engagement with the said plungers, a plate loosely mounted on the said plungers normally in contact on one side thereof with the support, means on the plungers in contact with the other side of the plate, and a handle on the plate for the purpose specified.

HERBERT RUBIN. 

